Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-11
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

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fifteen years.
The British government will subsidize
the Canadian Pacific railway for carrying
| the Pacific mails.
KANSAS CRY is vitiating its taste by
eating immense quantities of butterine
and oleomargarine. 1t makes about
100000 pounds annually.
The Hon. Allen Francis, u. S. Consul
at st. Thomas, Ontario, died early Thurs
day morning, aged 70.
THERE died at Bloomington, ILL.,, Thurs
| day, two old residents, Mrs. Silas Hayes
and Mr.. David McMaster. Two sisters,
Emma ard Mollie Cox, died in the same
house.
The Saranac IN. " Iron Company
Bowen & Signor, proprietors), have
made an assignment. The liabilities are
figured at 100000, and the assets at
about $4,000.
BEER KETTLE in Rahr's brewery, at
Green Bay, Wis, exploded Wednesday
night, scalding seven men, six of whom
died of their injuries. The seventh will
recover.
FIRE in tho Frazer il Jones Company
saddlery and hardware factory at SYRIA
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caused loss of 100000. The insurance
is ample,
IT was very hot and smoky at Ashton,
| Mich, Thursday. The fires in the woods,
four miles west of Ashton, are very bad.
The potato crop will be failure if rain
does not fall soon.
A BARN and contents owned by John
Borgards, a farmer living four miles
north of Zealand, Mich, was destroyed
by fire, Thursday. Loss, $4,000; no in
surance.
FIRE at Brazil, Ind, Thursday, destroy :
ed pioneer two-story frame, occupied
| by A. M. Oswald, grocer, and j. L. Davis,
| photographer, law Office of Crosdale 81
Kerr, and the barber shop of William
Hill. Loss, about $4,000.
THERE is law in Washington territory
compelling the teachers of public schools
to teach physiology and hygiene, and if
they do not teach the same they cannot
draw school money; also, if the pupils
will not study those studies they can be
expelled from the school.
IT is reported that the Ontario (Canada)
| Investment Association is financially
embarrassed, and that 100000 OF the
paid up capital has been lost through
bad management. Widows whose funds
were invested in the association will suffer
severely.
The Carpenters and Builders associa-
| top, of Chicago, held meeting Satur-
day night aud refused to submit to arbi-
tration. The journeymen carpenters say
that they will surely strike work on all
| jobs where more than eight hours are re-
quired.
| The Emperor Dom Hedro, of Brazil,
60 years old, is travelling in Europe. He
is popular sovereign, but likes to get
| away from home. The incidents of his
5aunt through the United States and tour
of Europe in 1876 showed him to be an
enlightened and progressive sovereign.
The race between the Glenshiel and
the Monmouthshire, which left Yokohama
July with cargoes of new tea for Ameri-
ca, was won by the former, which arrived
at New York Saturday. The race is an
annual event and excites great interest
in the tea trade and in shipping circles.
IT is stated that the new whiskey trust
has been perfected, and the headquarters
of the organization established at Peoria.
George A, Gibson, of the Monarch dis
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salary of $4,000 year.
The spinners in the King & Wilde's
Wooden Mills, at Laporte, Ind, the largest
in the West, struck Tuesday. The girls
had been working fourteen hours day,
and wanted reduction to twelve. The
company consented TO their demands
during the hot weather, and the spinners
returned to work Wednesday.
| INDIANS to the number of 100 donned
their war paint and camped near Artken,
Mimi, with the intention of releasing
| from jail several squaws who had been
arrested for threatening to kill white
man. The authorities did not care to
anger the bucks, and their women were
restored to them. The redskins killed
cattle belonging to lunbermen in the
district, and an uprising was feared.
MATT PINKERroN, who has been at
Sarnia for the past two days, says he pos
itively does not believe McGarigle ever
! stopped there. The man who got off the
| schooner Marsh was a blind, he believes,
and part of the scheme to insure the
boodler's escape. PinkertOn says his ap-
pearance tailed with that of Mac, but
his statements when interviewed did not
sound like McGarigle. From his own ex-
| pSI1euCS L iuheFbOu is SdbIsu lieu
| continued on board the schooner Blake
and went to Kingston. The boodler has
friends In Sarnia, but Pinkerton says that
is only for the purpose of further mis-
| leading his pursuers.
JOHN A. HAMILTON i Co., bankers of
Baltimore, who have confidential relations
with the CARROTS make statement of
the famous Baltimore and Ohio DEAL
from which it appears that Financier
Sully retired troEl the field at an early
stage of the negotiations. His option
passed to the Ives Stayner syndicate, who
put 100000 in money with Mr.. Garrett
and subsequently transferred to him
$1,SO0,0OO Of Cincinnati, Hamilton and
and Dayton stock to apply on the pur-
chase of the Baltimore and Ohio. They
were unable 10 meet the other payments
and the deal fell through. Garrett still
holds the s., 100000 in cash and securitia s
paid him by Ives d Stayner, and has not
parted with any of his Baltimore and
Ohio holdings.
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.